ARKY 357 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Inca Empire, Cradleboard, Mama Killa

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Archaeology
• Course: ARKY 357
• Professor: Alejandro Patino Contreras

Document Summary

Known lore about the expansion of the inca is a mix of actual facts and mythological elements: biased accounts passed over by the victors, organization of the empire is grounded on kinship, socio geographical principles, and mythological templates, the geopolitical framework of tawantinsuyu is implemented first in the cuzco valley and eventually projected over the whole inca empire, economic interests, campaigns seek access and control over key biotic areas and their resources. The ayllu: the ayllu is a group of related families that held land land in common and traced their descent from a common ancestor (kolata 2013: 52), leaded by a kuraka, found in most of the central and southern andes, key elements: a) identification with an ancestral figure that is the biological and the spiritual source of collective identity. b) collective claim to a well defined territory. c) shared history, labour, meals and worship of a common ancestor.